I've had my Laney Ironheart IRT60H for a year or two now and I've used it in a bunch of comparison videos but until now I had never done a proper in-depth demo. Before I post the demo, first some talk about this amp.
It's a sturdy head with some cool handles on top. This is a very nice way of doing this imho as I'm never afraid to drop the amp when I carry it. I dig the red light as well and that circular transformer looks interesting. The amp has some cool 'special' features such as a variable wattage control (tbh, it does kind of seem to work like a master volume but I'm not sure), DI outputs on the rear and the 'dynamics' control. I'm also a fan of the push-pull eq's! I love how this allows you to really shape the response of the amp. Pulling the bass out really seems to extend the low-end, making it huge. With the mid control the sound gets a bit less dense in the low-mids and pulling the treble control really makes the amp come forward in the mids/upper-mids.
The on-board pre-boost is a great way to get more gain from the amp and I also like what it does to the overall sound. It kind of makes the distortion a tad more 'smooth' to my ears. Not as aggressive as a tube screamer for example but useful indeed! The clean tones are nice and that channel can be pushed to a good crunch with the boost. The rhythm and lead channels are similar but the lead channel sounds a tad 'thicker' or more dense.
The reverb is surprisingly nice as well and it sounds quite natural. I guess my favorite thing that the amp can do is a huge modern rhythm sound. It has a nice saturation that fills the spectrum up while leaving some room for other instruments. Does anyone else have one? What do you like to use it for mainly? I also have the IRT Studio and that's a great amp as well. Sounds pretty close to the 60W head tbh.
Here's the demo in various styles:
It's a sturdy head with some cool handles on top. This is a very nice way of doing this imho as I'm never afraid to drop the amp when I carry it. I dig the red light as well and that circular transformer looks interesting. The amp has some cool 'special' features such as a variable wattage control (tbh, it does kind of seem to work like a master volume but I'm not sure), DI outputs on the rear and the 'dynamics' control. I'm also a fan of the push-pull eq's! I love how this allows you to really shape the response of the amp. Pulling the bass out really seems to extend the low-end, making it huge. With the mid control the sound gets a bit less dense in the low-mids and pulling the treble control really makes the amp come forward in the mids/upper-mids.
The on-board pre-boost is a great way to get more gain from the amp and I also like what it does to the overall sound. It kind of makes the distortion a tad more 'smooth' to my ears. Not as aggressive as a tube screamer for example but useful indeed! The clean tones are nice and that channel can be pushed to a good crunch with the boost. The rhythm and lead channels are similar but the lead channel sounds a tad 'thicker' or more dense.
The reverb is surprisingly nice as well and it sounds quite natural. I guess my favorite thing that the amp can do is a huge modern rhythm sound. It has a nice saturation that fills the spectrum up while leaving some room for other instruments. Does anyone else have one? What do you like to use it for mainly? I also have the IRT Studio and that's a great amp as well. Sounds pretty close to the 60W head tbh.
Here's the demo in various styles:
